Mars - The Gallery Of Modern Art

A series of albums featuring commissioned music for a Moscow art gallery. The Series of Electronic Music in 12 LP albums. All music composed and prformed by Mikhail Chekalin (Moscow, Russia). “M’Ars” key figures (artists: K. Khudyakov, S. Sharov, Yu. Mironov) have acquired their unofficial renown way back in 80s, as “The Twenty Moscow Artists” Group participants of unofficial Soviet art. The Group’s exhibitions were a spectacular event which used to take place each Spring at Malaya Gruzinskaya ulitsa in Moscow downtown within the exhibition spaces of a cluster of graphic artists’ studios... the exposition space’s unfailing feature were M. Chekalin’s “soundscapes”. His “absolute of a phonogram”, as the composer puts it, constituted an integral part of that genuine Moscow unofficial artistic underground...